The White House has declared the unemployment bill an emergency measure, meaning it does not have to be offset by spending cuts in other areas of the federal budget.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

That's a very large number, it's all relative, so you don't necessarily know it's large without me telling you or giving you other ions to compare to, but chlorine does have a very large affinity, meaning it's really likes getting an electron and becoming a chlorine ion.

这是个非常大的数值，这种数值都是相对的，因此你不一定能知道这是非常大的,除非我告诉你或给你另外离子数值作为参考，但是氯确实有很高的电子亲和能，这意味着它非常乐意得到一个电子,而变成一个氯离子。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

So usually, it conveys a negative meaning, meaning that you don't want to do something

所以，通常它传达着一种负面的意思，表示你已经不想再做某事。

I've already 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Fairey's designs change the meaning of the Russian propagandist style by applying it to the costly shopping goods of capitalism.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

The one that does is called the sense strand and the other one is called the anti-sense strand, anti meaning it's the compliment and it will hybridize to the sense.

能够进行编码的一条链叫做正义链,另一条则叫做反义链,反义的意思是它与正义链互补,并能够与之杂交

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It has several meanings. One meaning is that a person who never settles down in one place will not be successful.

VOA: special.2009.06.21

So, if Pynchon gives us the pattern of meaning, rather than meaning itself in this novel, he also gives us a vision of what it means to embody that pattern.

所以如果说Pynchon给了我们意义的模式在，而不是意义本身，那么他也给了我们体现那个模式意味着什么的景象。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

One story says it got that meaning from the custom of throwing boiling water down on enemies attacking a castle.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

I would suggest that it's not unlike the wedge that Hirsch drives between the concept of meaning and the concept of significance.

我想说明这不是赫施放在,意思和意义之间的差别。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"Typically the real estate sector leads the economy in a recovery, meaning that it tends to pick up before some other things.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

The meaning of Welles is that the past is simply dead what we do in present is creating myth about it.

威尔斯想要表达的就是过去已经逝去了,而我们今天做的仅是创造神话。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

It has special meaning for service members like Lieutenant Colonel Dan Snowden, now serving in Afghanistan.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

And when we're looking at the probability density graphs, it doesn't make a difference, it's okay, It has no meaning for our actual plot there, because we're squaring it, so it doesn't matter whether it's negative or positive, all that matters is the magnitude.

它的概率密度图的时候,两者没什么区别，这是可以的，它对我们画这个图，没有什么意义,因为我们是取平方，所以它的正负，无所谓，只和幅值有关，但当我们说到。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

It helped give meaning to her words. She often felt the faces of close friends when she was talking to them to discover their feelings.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

I am told that it plays on a slang phrase then current, "to make a gazebo of yourself," meaning"to make a spectacle of yourself and a fool of yourself, publicly."

有人告诉我这是当时的说法,建筑楼台意思是“,当众出丑,大庭广众下出洋相“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Yet writers recognize that it is impossible to put human meaning in such a place.

VOA: special.2009.10.07

I'll give the word the meaning I intend it to mean.

我说的话就是必须表达我的意思。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

So smart that it was said they could sell wooden, meaning false,nutmegs to strangers.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

So, he's using intuitive-- he says difficult or easy-- so he says it's difficult, meaning the probability is very low, or easy, meaning that probability is high.

所以他直接进行了描述,他用的是困难和简单两词,他说的困难,意思就是概率很小,他说的简单,意思就是概率很大

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It was about women's search for meaning in their lives.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

Computing square root. I'm going to capture it in a piece of code, I'm going to be able to refer to it by a name, and I'm going to suppress the details, meaning inside of that computation, you don't need to know what it does. You just need to know, if I give it the right kind of input, it'll give me back an input that satisfies the contract that I set up.

比如计算平方根,我会用一段代码来说明,我将给它命名,并且忽略细节,意思就是在这一段计算过程中,你不用知道它做了什么，你只需知道，如果我进行了正确的输入,它将会给我符合条件的输出。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

How it got this meaning is hard to discover.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

It's seeking to ascertain the meaning of events to draw larger philosophical, ideological conclusions from the events of history, and to point to the larger purpose or design of history, not to say just what happened, but to say why it happened and what it means for us today that it did happen.

它致力于查明事件的意义,得出哲学性的思想性的结论，从历史事件中，并且指出历史图景中的宏观目的，不说发生了什么，而阐明为什么它会发生,而它发生了对于今天的我们有何意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It came from three words. Dynamic,meaning a force.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

Episcopalians call the Communion, when they take it on Sunday,"the Eucharist," which is just from the Greek word meaning "thanks."

主教派称之为“共享“,在礼拜日食用时，就叫“圣餐“,正是希腊语中“感谢“的意思“

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

But it can often hide meaning.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

And it doesn't carry a notion of sanctions, meaning I don't think anybody should be punished for eating strawberry ice cream.

而且这个判断也没有惩罚的意味，也就是说没有谁,会因为吃草莓冰淇淋而受罚。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

CARLOS AMAYA: "Coppi's is a very unique, sustainable restaurant. The theme of it is of course, northern Italian, but the difference in maintaining a sustainable restaurant, meaning we have to source American products."

VOA: special.2009.04.10

It's easy to get lost in this sea of quantities, none of which have obvious meaning.

这里没有一样是，有明显的物理意义的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

That's one of its meanings and I think it's the meaning that's relevant here.

这是它的一种释义,我认为这个释义在这里是恰当的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选